De la descolonización a la decolonialidad: Una perspectiva desde la ciencia ficción feminista en Midnight Robber de Nalo Hopkinson y De cuando en cuando Saturnina de Alison Spedding

Abstract

The two works under consideration propose a future in which a previously colonized nation establishes a utopia. De cuando en cuando Saturnina: Una historia oral del futuro, written by the English anthropologist Alison Spedding, who has resided in Bolivia since the 1980s, is set at the end of the twenty-first century and imagines the recovery of the territory and practices of the one of the four divisions of the former Incan Empire. Midnight Robber, by the Canadian-Jamaican author Nalo Hopkinson, takes place in a distant future on the planet of Toussaint, where technological advances have made it possible for the descendants of Afro-Caribbeans to live free from physical labor, poverty and violence. In this paper I will explore the process of decolonization set forth by the two authors and the critiques that the same authors elaborate about these utopias with the goal of exploring the subtle but meaningful distinction between the decolonization and decoloniality.